> If Patrick can use his AI-based kung-fu to get things to where they're 
> working, don't break backwards compatibility / old branches, have a sane 
> sustainable workflow, and have updated docs that look good and are 
> maintainable on trunk - God Speed. We should all be rooting for him.


Yes, aligned here.


> If you have specific "this approach isn't going to work because of 
> non-obvious, non-documented constraints A-Z" based concerns, please by all 
> means air them. Those are things we should write down and codify in the repo 
> so people that come along with interest and energy have the context they need 
> to know what constraints they're working with. If it's instead "this is 
> making too many changes at once to a thing", I'd contend that the thing he's 
> looking to make changes to is something that's not being heavily actively 
> maintained and that has a lot of gaps.


Yes, there are specific concerns, and some are documented (jira tickets and 
todo/fixme comments) and others are not.  I'm trying to air them.  

And yes, docs are living and actively maintained (despite pain-points and 
debt): 
 - https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/commits/trunk/
 - https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commits/trunk/doc 

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